Abstract: The Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project,
lead by the National Research Council Canada (NRCC) and Public Works
and Government Service Canada (PWGSC), is a "proof of concept" project
aimed at helping asset managers to predict the remaining service life of
building envelope components and to maximize the return on their
maintenance expenditure. The BELCAM project focuses on flat or lowslope
conventional roofing systems as a representative domain. This paper
focuses on maintenance management, which is primarily concerned with the
management of all technical and administrative tasks involved in
maintaining a building element in, or restoring it to, a state in which it can
perform its intended function. A framework for the integration of the
process of managing maintenance of roofing systems is proposed. The
framework consists of five sequential steps: (1) Identification of roofing
system components requiring assessment, (2) Identification of roofing
system performance requirements, (3) Identification of performance
assessment methods, (4) Roofing system maintenance planning, (5) Roofing
system maintenance operations management. This paper introduces a
framework for roofing systems maintenance management. It presents a
preliminary analysis of an integrated information system to support
maintenance management. The paper follows the development
methodology adopted by the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI)
to represent the high-level information within the proposed framework of
maintenance management. IAI projects follow a standard process-oriented
development methodology, involving the following steps: usage scenarios,
process definitions, information analysis and information modeling and
validation.

Permission to reproduce these papers has been graciously provided by the Research Press of the National Research Council of Canada. The support of the editors, particularly Dr. Dana Vanier, is gratefully appreciated.